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OK, let’s do this: some statistics and visualization of the tweets for ISMB 2012. First, thanks to Stephen Turner who got things started in this post at his excellent blog, Getting Genetics Done. Subscribe to his feed if you don’t already do so. I’ve created a Github repository for this project (and future Twitter-related work).

One of the air pollution detection machine in Beijing (at the American Embassy) is connected to Twitter and tweet about the air quality in real time. By default the machine in Beijing output the 24hr summary PM2.5 air pollution information. What is PM2.5 is define here Next will be to compare the...

Growing up in Australia, for me a carbonated drink like Pepsi or Fanta or lemonade was always just a "soft drink". (Also, 'lemonade' in Australia was something different to 'lemonade' in the US; it's something close to 7-Up.) So when I moved to Seattle, it was surprising to me that all such things were called "pop". And then I...

I have Twitter account and it is relatively easy to see new followers or subscribers. However, I was looking for ways to know who are the unfollowers. I have noticed, that some (un)subscriptions happen in bulks, which made me thinking that either I tweeted some bullshit and upset bunch of people or spam bots work

The 20th annual ISMB meeting was held over the last week in Long Beach, CA. It was an incredible meeting with lots of interesting and relevant talks, and lots of folks were tweeting the conference, usually with at least a few people in each concurrent ...

This is a Twitter retweet network. When people tweet, they may get retweeted by other people, repeating the message for their followers to view. Each retweet is a one-way flow of information that links the first person to each person who retweeted them (forwarded the original tweet into their own network). So, in this visualization

One of the great things about Twitter is that it’s a global conversation anyone can join anytime. Eavesdropping on the world, what what!
Of course, it gets even better when you can mine all this chatter to study the way humans live and interact.
For example, how do people in New York City differ from those in Silicon Valley? We...

There’s a great Tom Waits song from the album “Mule Variations” called “Big in Japan”. The beauty of saying you’re big in Japan is that no one can ever really verify the statement (or at least that was more true in 1999). You might assert “my work is big on twitter”, and hey, how would I know?...

Find the HTML-slides here, and the .Rmd-file that was used to generate here. How to deal with .Rmd-files, see here What this is about These are my first steps to play around with the interface from R to twitter, using the twitteR-package. We will load the latest 1500 (maximum the API allows) tweets from the

In my last blog I'm following you in Twitter...are you following me back? I show you how to use the Twitter APIs to get a list of the people that you follow but doesn't follow you back.This time, I want to extend the tool as I installed the R...